The University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco,California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.
The University of Michigan School of Information is the informatics and information science school of the University of Michigan,a public research university in Ann Arbor,Michigan. It offers baccalaureate,magisterial,and doctoral degrees.
Sue J. Goldie is an American physician and scientist who is recognized for her contributions to public health and decision science.
The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California,San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco,California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland,it is the oldest medical school in California and in the western United States. U.S. News &World Report ranked the school fifth in research training and fifth in primary care training. Six members of the UCSF faculty have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and five have received the National Medal of Science.
Joan Y. Reede is an American physician. She is Harvard Medical School's inaugural dean for diversity and community partnership in the Office of Diversity,Inclusion,and Community Partnership. She is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She is known for creating programs that mentor and support minority physicians and female physicians. Alumni of her programs have created a 501(c)(3) organization called The Reede Scholars in her honor.
Laura Esserman is a surgeon and breast cancer oncology specialist. She is the director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at the University of California,San Francisco School of Medicine. She leads the I-SPY trials,Athena Breast Health Network and the WISDOM study. Esserman is an inductee in the Giants of Cancer Care,2018,for Cancer Diagnostics and the "less is more" approach. She performs live in the show "Audacity" which she co-created. She is also known as the "singing surgeon" for singing to her patients as they go under anesthesia.
Nancy Elinor Adler was an American health psychologist. She was the Lisa and John Pritzker Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF),and director of UCSF's Center for Health and Community Sciences. Adler was known for her research on health behaviors,health disparities,and social determinants of health.
Lucila Ohno-Machado is a biomedical engineer and Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine.
Rebecca Miriam Cunningham is an American emergency physician and researcher. She is the vice president for research at the University of Michigan,and William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine,and Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health. On February 26,2024,she was named the new president of the University of Minnesota.
Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola is an American family physician,public health professional,author,professor,and women's empowerment leader. She is the Senior Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer of Humana and a chair and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Prior to her appointment at OSU,she served as the inaugural Chief Clinical Transformation Officer for RubiconMD,an eConsult platform that improves primary care access to specialty care for underserved patients. Olayiwola is dedicated to serving marginalized patient populations and addressing the social determinants through community and technology-based infrastructures of healthcare reform. She has published articles on the use of eConsults and telehealth to provide underserved patients with primary care treatments so that they have a low cost and efficient means of reaching specialized care. Olayiwola has founded numerous non-profits and healthcare start-ups such as GIRLTALK Inc,Inspire Health Solutions LLC,and the Minority Women Professionals are MVPs Program. She has been recognized at the national and international level for her work and efforts to educate,advocate and provide healthcare to those in need. She was named Woman of the Year by the American Telemedicine Association in 2019,and received the Public Health Innovator Award from Harvard School of Public Health in 2019,as well as being named one of America's Top Family Doctors from 2007 to 2008 by the Consumers Research Council of America.
Justin Brigham Dimick is an American surgeon. He is the Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan.
Preeti N. Malani is the Chief Health Officer in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Michigan and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Her research focus is on infectious disease control and prevention in older adults.
Sherri Rose is an American biostatistician. She is an associate professor of health care policy at Stanford University,and once worked at Harvard University. A fellow of the American Statistical Association,she has served as co-editor of Biostatistics since 2019 and Chair of the American Statistical Association’s Biometrics Section. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning for health care policy.
Mousumi Banerjee is an Indian-American statistician and singer. She is the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Research Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy (CHOP) at the University of Michigan. Banerjee is also the executive director of the nonprofit art foundation Tagore Beyond Boundaries.
Reshma Jagsi is an American Radiation oncologist. She is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Overall,she is the author of over 450 published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and continues scholarly research in three primary areas of interest:breast cancer,bioethics,and gender equity,with the support of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,and the Susan G. Komen Foundation,for which she serves as a Senior Scholar.
Lori Jo Pierce is an American radiation oncologist and 57th President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is a Full Professor and Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the use of radiotherapy in the multi-modality treatment of breast cancer,with emphasis on intensity modulated radiotherapy in node positive breast cancer,the use of radiosensitizing agents,and the outcomes of women treated with radiation for breast cancer who are carriers of a BRCA1/2 breast cancer susceptibility gene.
Eve Askanas Kerr is an American physician-researcher. Kerr is a Full Professor of internal medicine and the inaugural Vice-Chair of Diversity,Equity,and Well-being at the University of Michigan.
Claire Brindis,DrPH,is a Distinguished Emerita Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy,Department of Pediatrics and Department of Obstetrics,Gynecology and Reproductive Health Sciences and Emerita Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF). Her research considers women's,adolescent and child health,as well as adolescent pregnancy prevention strategies. She was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2010.
A. Eugene Washington is an American physician,clinical investigator,and administrator. He served as the chancellor for health affairs at Duke University,and the president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System,from 2015 to 2023. His research considers gynaecology,health disparities,and public health policy. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1997 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
Sharon Kiyomi Inouye is an American geriatrician. She is the Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research,as well as a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her career has focused on maintaining healthy brain aging,preventing delirium and functional decline,and optimizing healthcare for older adults. Her recent work has focused on healthy longevity and combating ageism.
